Elected to American Law Institute (ALI) membership in September 2012, Professor Kami Chavis Simmons is a Harvard Law graduate and a former federal prosecutor who now teaches at Wake Forest University School of Law.

Her scholarship has focused on hate crimes, racial profiling, and police accountability. Prior to her work as a prosecutor, she was an associate at two major law firms, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Latham & Watkins. Along with two coauthors, she is currently at work on a book, Criminal Law: Prosecution, Punishment and the Prevention of Crimes, to be published by Carolina Academic Press. Professor Simmons participates in ALI’s Members Consultative Groups for the Model Penal Code: Sentencing and the Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses.